Regional guide
Aquitaine
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Ideas to get you started
Available guides: 6
Ideas to get you started
A selection of city guides to help you choose your base.
Agen
Agen lies beside the Garonne in the Agenais, at the heart of Lot-et-Garonne. Although much of its fabric was lost through successive periods of conflict and pillage, the centre retains religious build…
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Bayonne
Bayonne is at the confluence of the Nive and Adour, where the Landes meet the French Basque Country in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Its sheltered port made the city prosperous and strategically important…
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Bordeaux developed beside the Garonne, and many of its principal landmarks reflect the wealth generated by eighteenth-century commerce. That prosperity was also tied to the slave trade, a history addr…
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Mont-de-Marsan is the prefecture of the Landes département and a Gascon city whose old centre was shaped by water. The Midou and Douze meet here to form the Midouze, while streets, surviving fortifica…
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Pau
Pau is the prefecture of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the former capital of Béarn. Around 50 kilometres from Spain, the city has a built heritage shaped by its political past and by the mountain landscape…
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Périgueux
Périgueux is the historic capital of Périgord, in Dordogne in north-eastern Aquitaine. Its centre brings together two long urban histories: the remains of the Gallo-Roman settlement and the medieval d…
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Places to Visit in Aquitaine
The Aquitaine section is arranged by department, with city pages beneath those divisions. The regional directory entry identifies Agen, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Pau, Périgueux and Mont-de-Marsan. This page retains that geographical structure so that each city can be found through its department.
Browse by department
- Gironde for the directory route to Bordeaux.
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques for Bayonne and Pau.
- Lot-et-Garonne for Agen.
- Dordogne for Périgueux.
- Landes for Mont-de-Marsan.
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Selecting a department opens the next level of the English visitor directory. From there, continue to the named city to see the places of interest recorded for that destination. The department pages are intermediate indexes: they keep Bordeaux separate from Bayonne, for example, while preserving both within the wider Aquitaine section.
All five department routes supplied for this regional page are linked above. The list is organised for navigation and does not rank one department or city above another.
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